5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"She is a poet who elevates the novel, on a linear level, to something higher"

By Book Marks | April 28, 2022

Maybe Don’t Try to Play the <em>Withnail & I</em> Drinking Game

Maybe Don’t Try to Play the Withnail & I Drinking Game

Adam Haslett in Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith on Open Form

By Open Form | April 28, 2022

Translating the Magical Imperfection of Oral Tradition to the Page

Translating the Magical Imperfection of Oral Tradition to the Page

Vaishnavi Patel on Finding Inspiration from the Ramayana

By Vaishnavi Patel | April 28, 2022

Armadillos Don’t Have Fangs: Jeff VanderMeer on Our Dangerous Disconnect from Nature

Armadillos Don’t Have Fangs: Jeff VanderMeer on Our Dangerous Disconnect from Nature

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | April 27, 2022

The Last Poems of Les Murray

The Last Poems of Les Murray

From the Famed Australian Poet’s Collection, Continuous Creation

By Les Murray | April 27, 2022

AudioFile’s Best </br>Audiobooks of April

AudioFile’s Best
Audiobooks of April

The Month in Literary Listening

By Book Marks | April 27, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Switzy
  • Taipei Story
  • Ambivalence: An Education
  • The Pirate Queen
  • The Living Realm
  • Frenchman Flat: The Rise and Fall of Atomic Bombs
  • In the Realm of the Last Man: A Memoir
  • Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Our Relationships
  • The Passing of the Dragon and Other Stories
  • Tower Hill: A Plantation on the Edge of Rebellion

There is a bell hooks Book for Every Season of Life

By Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah | April 27, 2022

Sara Baume on the Uncanny Feeling of Discovering a Book with the Same Title as Her Own

By Sara Baume | April 27, 2022

Kyle Lukoff on Book Bans and Letting Queer Books Just Be Books

By NewberyTart | April 27, 2022

Caren Beilin on (Incidentally) Writing a Funny Book

Caren Beilin on (Incidentally) Writing a Funny Book

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | April 27, 2022

“Spring’s begun dividing her storks and cranes among us.” New Poetry from Ukraine by Natalia Beltchenko

“Spring’s begun dividing her storks and cranes among us.” New Poetry from Ukraine by Natalia Beltchenko

Translated by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk

By Literary Hub | April 26, 2022

20 new books being published today.

20 new books being published today.

By Katie Yee | April 26, 2022

Was George Eliot Wrong to Think Books Could Make People Better?

Was George Eliot Wrong to Think Books Could Make People Better?

Pamela Erens on Middlemarch and the Moral Value of Fiction

By Pamela Erens | April 26, 2022

“I Know You Understand.” A Letter Across Time from Celia Paul to Fellow Artist Gwen John

“I Know You Understand.” A Letter Across Time from Celia Paul to Fellow Artist Gwen John

"Please help me, Gwen, to work my way through these feelings of panic and fear.”

By Celia Paul | April 26, 2022

Diving Into the “Uncanny Despair” of the Cruise Ship Narrative

Diving Into the “Uncanny Despair” of the Cruise Ship Narrative

Lara Williams on David Foster Wallace, Wabi-sabi, and the Luxurious Veneer of Decay

By Lara Williams | April 26, 2022

Just How Depressing is <em>Good Morning, Midnight</em>?

Just How Depressing is Good Morning, Midnight?

The Lit Century Podcast Reads Jean Rhys's 1939 Novel

By Lit Century | April 26, 2022

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